Films that hardly raised a stir which you rate very highly.

[One Teddy Maybank]

Sleepers not sure it ever gets the credit it deserves.
Coach Carter is good
The Game
Any Given Sunday
The Bank Job

 

[the slow norris]

Ooh, sleepers is a good shout.

My nominations are:

The dish - small Aussie film about their part in broadcasting the moon landing, with Sam Neil and the girl who used to play Danni stark in neighbours, a charming film.
The diving bell and the butterfly - life affirming stuff, had me in tears on a transatlantic flight
The frighteners - with Michael j fox and jake busey, great little horror comedy

 

[Meade's Ball]

I love Fletch.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

This is AMAZING.

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

 

[Barrow Boy]

Silent Running

A quite old sci-fi which really touches a nerve given the way we are destroying planet Earth

Loved that film, and I didn't have tears in my eyes when one of the little 'helper' robots got stuck on the outside of the spaceship as it was about to be destroyed, honest.....I didn't!

And bollocks to Star Wars, give me The Last Starfighter any day!

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

This is the one.

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

 

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Into the Wild - critically acclaimed but relatively unknown to many

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Winged Migration - won an Oscar and some other awards I think, but also relatively unknown. Most beautifully shot film about nature/animals I've ever seen

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[Bold Seagull]

John Carpenter's The Thing and Starman both flopped in the box office and are worthy of being mentioned in the same breath as Blade Runner.

Loved that film, and I didn't have tears in my eyes when one of the little 'helper' robots got stuck on the outside of the spaceship as it was about to be destroyed, honest.....I didn't!

And bollocks to Star Wars, give me The Last Starfighter any day!

Oh, oh really, this could lead to a fight........"Captain Pickard is not gay, he's British!"

 

[Gwylan]

Braking away.

won an oscar for best screenplay in 1979, one of my favorite films of all time. No one i know has seen it.

I have. Directed by Peter Yates who made his name directing The Dave Clark Five in Catch Me if You Can. It's an excellent film.

I'd nominate Fat City as my under-rated film. Although directed by John Huston it didn't get the attention it deserved - wonderful performance by Stacy Keach as a washed-up boxer

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Eden Lake.

 

[somerset]

Jean de Floret

 

[T soprano]

Jean de Floret

And the follow up manon DES sources

 

[T soprano]

This is England,
popular with some but surprising the amount of people I talk too about it that have never seen or heard off it
Also Shane meadows other film Somers Town is worth a watch

 

[piersa]

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

eternal sunshine of the plotless mind

 

[Albion in the north]

Has anyone else seen Babel?
Sin City is also one of my all time faves.

 

[red star portslade]

This is England,
popular with some but surprising the amount of people I talk too about it that have never seen or heard off it
Also Shane meadows other film Somers Town is worth a watch

Shane meadows film - a room for romeo brass is a great film. Paddy Considine is such a good actor, he's also great in meadows film Dead mans shoes.

 

[Norman Potting]

All comedies, Hot Fuzz, Galaxy Quest and Ruthless People (Danny Devito and Bette Midler are both totally OTT in this).

 

[HalifaxSeagull]

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly was a film my girlfriend made me watch (she's a speech therapist and bits of it are about Speech Therapy...)

From memory it's black and white and French with subtitles... The plot:

Forty-three year old Elle magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby - Jean-Do to his friends - awakens not knowing where he is. He is in a Berck-sur-Mer hospital, where he has been for the past several weeks in a coma after suffering a massive stroke. Although his cognitive facilities are in tact, he quickly learns that he has what is called locked-in syndrome which has resulted in him being almost completely paralyzed, including not being able to speak. One of his few functioning muscles is his left eye. His physical situation and hospitalization uncomfortably bring together the many people in his life, including: Céline Desmoulins, his ex-lover and mother of his children; Inès, his current lover; and his aged father who he calls Papinou. Among his compassionate recuperative team are his physical therapist Marie, and his speech therapist Henriette. Henriette eventually teaches him to communicate using a system where he spells out words: she reads out the letters of the alphabet in descending order of their use in the French language, and he blinks his functioning left eye when she reaches the appropriate letter. Although frustrating at start, he learns to communicate effectively but slowly using this method, so much so that with the help of Claude, a full time translator, he decides on the monumental and seemingly impossible task to keep to his pre-injury commitment of writing a book, changing its focus to life in his current state.

I thought it was a brilliant film...

 

[HalifaxSeagull]

And quite timely given the poor lad with Locked in Syndrome who died recently...

 

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On a similar note, and based on a true story, there is a French film called Les Untouchables which is absolutely brilliant. It's about a young african immigrant who lands a job looking after a tetraplegic millionaire simply for the fact he just treats him as a normal person and not like a victim. Highly, highly recommend it!

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